pa68 : Message: RE: [pa68] Political: I despair

pa68 : Message: RE: [pa68] Political: I despair: "As evidence of the media’s rock star adoration of Palin (gee- wasn’t that the Republicans’ complaint about Obama he got all the international attention?), I offer all the twisted logic in the form of that new language, which I will call Palinese, that they conveniently are overlooking for fear of getting attacked by the Republican propaganda machine while she’s so “hot”: If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a 'token hire.' If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates, you're a 'game changer.' Black teen pregnancies? A 'crisis' in black America. White teen pregnancies? A 'blessed event.' If you grow up in Hawaii you're 'exotic.' Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential 'American story.' Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you're 'unpatriotic.' Name your kid Track, you're 'colorful.' If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're 'reckless.' A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a 'maverick.' If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African-American voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend" The credit for this belongs to Duncan Andrews Phillips Academy class of 1968 by his permission